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(ModeL) E. s. LENOX.

WIRE BALE TIE.

No. 248,764. 7 J Patented Oct. 25,1881.

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' EDWIN S. LENOX, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOlt TO WASH- BURN & MOEN MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

WIRE BALE-TIE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 248,764, dated 0ctober 25, 1881. Application filed August 29, 1881. (ModeL) To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, EDWIN S. LENoX, of the city and county of Worcester, and Commonwealth of llIassachusetts, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in The Bale-Ties; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 represents a section of one end of the tie as itappears in the process of manufacture, as will be hereinafter more fully described. Fig. 2 represents the parts shown in Fig. l as they appear at another state in the process ofmanufactnre. Fig. 3 represents the parts shown in FigZ as they appear at still another state in the process of manufacture. Fig. 4c represents a view of the double-looped end of the tie after its completion. Fig. 5 rep resents a side view of the parts shown in Fig. 4; and Fig. 6 represents the two ends of the tie as they appear when fastened or secured together in the process of baling hay, straw, and other material, as will be hereinafter more fully described.

To enable those skilled in the art to which my invention belongs to make and use the same, I will proceed to describe it more in detail.

The nature of my invention consists in the combination of two separate loops with one end of the tie, and which loops are formed from the bent end of a single wire, as will be here inal'ter more fully described.

In the drawings the part marked B represents a section of one end of the bale-tie wire with the end bent as indicated at A, Fig. 1, and this is the first step taken in the process of manufacturing the tie after the wire has been cut up into the proper lengths. The next step in the process consists in intertwisting the end A with the body of the wire B, as indicated at F, Fig. 2, and by which operation loop 0 is formed, after which the bight part b of loop 0 is bent back upon itself, forming double hooks D D, as shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings, the bight b resting upon the twisted part F, while two bights are formed at the point a a. By the next operation the hook parts D D are intertwisted separately from the bight part b outward toward the bights a 64 thereof, thereby forming independent twists G G and independent loops E E, as fully indicated in Figs. 4, 5, and 6 of the drawings, and by which last operation the wire bale-tie is completed,ready for use in baling hay, straw, and other similar materials. Alter the bale has been sufficiently compressed my improved wire bale-tie is passed around the same and the free end 0 passed through the double and independent loops E E, then bent back upon itself and wound about the tie-wire B, as indicated in Fig. 6 of the drawings, whereby a secure and proper fastening of the two ends ot' the wire bale-tie is obtained, the expansion of the material preventing the free end 0 from being drawn out of place.

If desired to give greater strength, particularly in baling cotton, the free end 0 of the tie maybe bent back upon itself heforeit is passed through the loops E E, and in which case the tie-wire B would necessarily have to be cut of greater length to compensate for the additional wire used by doubling the free end he fore passing it through the loops E E, and, it preferred,the free end could be intertwisted at its extreme end with the bodyot'the tie when the tie was manufactured, as indicated in Fig. 2 of the drawings.

By making the double loops as shown and described the loops are firm and unyielding, and are not liable to give way or draw down, thereby allowing the loop formed by the single end 0 to draw down and abrade and weaken itself, as would be the case if the double and independent twists G G were not interposed between the bight b and loops E E. Then, again, the strain on the main wire is divided and equalized, thereby rendering it less liable to break at any particular point where the looped end is inter-twisted therewith.

Having described my improvement in wire bale-ties, what I claim therein as new and of my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A wire baletie provided at one end with loops E E, formed from the loop 0, for the reception of the free end 0 of the tie, with twists G G interposed between said loops E E and the bight b, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

EDWIN S. LENOX. lVit-nesses EDWIN E. MOORE, Tnos. H. DODGE. 

